Global History

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    • A Global History
    • By: Roderick Beaton
    • Narrated by: Anna Crowe
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics, and law. But the influence of the Greeks did not end with the rise and fall of this classical civilization....

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    • A Global History
    • By: Lucy Delap
    • Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
    • Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In this absorbing book, historian Lucy Delap challenges the simplistic narrative of 'feminist waves' - a sequence of ever more progressive updates ­- showing instead that feminists have been motivated by the specific concerns of their historical moment....

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    • A Global History of Science
    • By: James Poskett
    • Narrated by: Sid Sagar
    • Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • A radical retelling of the history of science, Horizons challenges the Eurocentric narrative....

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    • A Global History
    • By: Bruce Gordon
    • Narrated by: Richard Attlee
    • Length: 15 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Bible is the world's best-known text. Yet, it is a book that never was - its original form does not exist and likely never did. What we have is the inheritance of generation after generation of Christians who have sought to hear God speak....

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    • A Global History of Christianity
    • By: Robert Louis Wilken
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the dramatic spread and development of Christianity over the first thousand years of its history....

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    • A Global History
    • By: Peter Burke
    • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day....

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    • A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State
    • By: David Vine
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The United States has been at war or has invaded other countries almost every year since independence. David Vine traces this pattern of bloody conflict from Columbus' 1494 arrival in Guantanamo Bay through the 250-year expansion of a global US empire....

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    • A Global History
    • By: Julia Lovell
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism....

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    • A Global History
    • By: Jeremy Black
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Strategy has existed as long as there has been organized conflict. In this account, Jeremy Black explores the ever-changing relationship between purpose, force, implementation, and effectiveness in military strategy and its dramatic impact on the development of the global power system....

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    • A Global History, 1500-2000
    • By: David Blackbourn
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 36 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 24-10-23
    • Language: English
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    • Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany....

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    • Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
    • By: Edward Wilson-Lee
    • Narrated by: Richard Trinder
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in 16th-century Portugal....

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    • A Global History of Mathematics & Its Unsung Trailblazers
    • By: Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell
    • Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 17-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The Secret Lives of Numbers introduces listeners to a new group of mathematical boundary-smashers, those who have been erased by history because of their race, gender or nationality....

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    • A Global History of Philosophy
    • By: Julian Baggini
    • Narrated by: Julian Baggini
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 27-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 411 ratings
    • In How the World Thinks, Julian Baggini travels the globe to provide a hugely wide-ranging map of human thought....

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    • A Global History of Soccer
    • By: David Goldblatt, David Goldblatt - foreword
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 38 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 21-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt tells the full story of soccer's rise from chaotic folk ritual to the world's most popular sport - now poised to fully establish itself in the USA....

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    • A Global History of the First Psychedelic
    • By: Mike Jay
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 20-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • A definitive history of mescaline that explores its mind-altering effects across cultures, from ancient America to Western modernity....

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    • A New History of the World
    • By: Peter Frankopan
    • Narrated by: Mike Grady
    • Length: 25 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 180 ratings
    • For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west—in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches....

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    • 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
    • By: William K. Klingaman, Nicholas P. Klingaman
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 18-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption at Mount Tambora in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall....

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    • How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
    • By: Victor Davis Hanson
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 25-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • The Second World Wars examines how combat unfolded in the air, at sea, and on land to show how distinct conflicts among disparate combatants coalesced into one interconnected global war. Victor Davis Hanson argues that neither the war's origins nor its geography were unusual....

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    • How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empire
    • By: Roger Crowley
    • Narrated by: John Sackville
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten....

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